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CHANDRA SHEKHAR SINGH

JSURAJ·INC·IND·BJP·JNP·CPI·INCI·BJS

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “CHANDRA SHEKHAR SINGH” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 2 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 74-year span across 28 contests, 8 different parties — patterns a single career can’t produce. Read each block below as its own thread, and treat the totals as counts for the name, not for a person.

Also recorded as

Other spellings of what is very likely the same person — names are stored as free text, so word order, initials and joined words split a career across pages.

Ballot lines
28
1951–2025
Wins
7
Parties
8
States / UT
3
incl. Lok Sabha

Every contest

Grouped by state and by Lok Sabha — spelling variants are merged, and, without a candidate id, so are different people who share this name.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Bihar15 contests · 1951–2025 · 4 won
Bihar 2025196. TarariJSURAJ2,2711.2%Lost · 5th
Bihar 199551. LalganjIND310.0%Lost · 37th
Bihar 1995227. DinaraIND2300.2%Lost · 15th
Bihar 199097. Mohiuddin NagarINC23,56416.7%Lost · 3rd
Bihar 198556. KantiIND1080.2%Lost · 16th
Bihar 198557. KurhaniIND1,4031.6%Lost · 6th
Bihar 1985174. BankaINC61,74370.9%Won
Bihar 198095. SamastipurJNP8,3269.6%Lost · 3rd
Bihar 1980242. ArwalCPI18,36118.8%Lost · 3rd
Bihar 197795. SamastipurJNP25,40644.3%Won
Bihar 1977177. ChakaiINC11,04823.4%Lost · 3rd
Bihar 1969189. BarauniCPI32,90848.0%Won
Bihar 1962169. JhajhaINC10,89238.5%Lost · 2nd
Bihar 1957142. JhajhaINC14,42924.0%Won
Bihar 195146. ItarhiIND1,5596.2%Lost · 5th
Uttar Pradesh8 contests · 1957–2012 · 2 won
Uttar Pradesh 2012286. BahraichINC35,26320.5%Lost · 2nd
Uttar Pradesh 2012342. BarhajIND1,1820.8%Lost · 8th
Uttar Pradesh 1996176. MendhwalBJP32,06425.6%Lost · 2nd
Uttar Pradesh 1991176. MendhwalBJP27,74631.2%Won
Uttar Pradesh 1985176. MendhwalBJP18,54624.4%Lost · 2nd
Uttar Pradesh 1977176. MendhwalJNP31,36751.4%Won
Uttar Pradesh 1969181. MendhwalBJS21,83839.9%Lost · 2nd
Uttar Pradesh 1957255. NaugarhBJS4,45810.3%Lost · 3rd
Lok Sabha5 contests · 1962–1980 · 1 won
Lok Sabha 198076. BankaINCI1,71,78149.8%Won
Lok Sabha 198088. JahanabadCPI2,03,80436.2%Lost · 2nd
Lok Sabha 197788. BankaINC78,86623.4%Lost · 2nd
Lok Sabha 1977100. JahanabadCPI59,46712.1%Lost · 3rd
Lok Sabha 196296. JahanabadCPI39,06417.6%Lost · 2nd